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...Smith. The second Col. Theodore Roosevelt lately toured the Midwest, minus his dinnercoat, frothing with expletives, trying to discredit Candidate Smith and Tammany Hall as vicious, grafting plug-uglies. Mayor James J. Walker of New York City,* with 36 pairs of spats and a plenitude of evening shirts, morning shirts, afternoon shirts and silk pajamas instead of nightshirts, all most exquisitely cared for by Robert Abel, English valet, last week set out for the Mardi Gras at New Orleans. The theory: the Midwest may think what it has a mind to about Tammany Hall, but what the South thinks...
...looking northward, saw millions of acres of snow that would soon melt and incalculable clouds of rain that would soon fall. Winter had come and spring was not far behind. The peace of the public mind was not promoted during the week by an address to the third annual Midwest Power Conference, in Chicago, by Major-General Edgar Jadwin. As Chief of Engineers for the Army, General Jadwin may be expected to know what he is talking about. Said he, without giving any date: ". . . We now have a responsible forecast of a superflood, greater even than the 1927 flood. This...
...Editor Midwest News Magazine for the Deaf and popularly classified as "deaf and dumb...
...quiet week at Sinnissippi, rounded off by a trip to Evanston to see the Northwestern University drub Iowa 12 to 0,* his name was formally entered for the Indiana primaries and his manager, State Senator Clarence F. Buck, reached Washington, D.C., full of confidence after a tour of the Midwest. Mr. Buck denied that Mayor Thompson would be actively unfriendly. Mr. Buck said that the industrial East was "lining up" behind Mr. Lowden. Literature to accelerate this "lining up" was issued, setting forth Mr. Lowden's record for economy and efficiency, also his faithful pro-tariff stand, also...
Chicago Stock Exchange has been moribund of late years; trading has been provincial. Midwest security business that obviously should have been transacted in Chicago has gone to Manhattan. This has been a slough out of which R. Arthur Wood, elected president of the exchange last week, hopes to propel his organization...